US lawmakers scale back bill targeting Chinese chipmakingA US bill to limit China's access to advanced chipmaking equipment has been modified. The legislation still aims to restrict ASML's deep ul...
16 Apr, 2026, 08.20 PM IST
Chinese chipmaker YMTC plans new factories amid heightened US-Sino trade tensions, sources sayChina has been keen to wean itself from foreign technologies such as semiconductors - a critical sector that the U.S. has sought to limit C...
14 Apr, 2026, 12.13 PM IST
US tightens chip export controls, curb China's tech riseThe committee further stated that semiconductor manufacturing lies at the core of the technological competition with China, adding that the...
04 Apr, 2026, 10.00 PM IST
Chinese chipmaker YMTC sues Micron alleging patent infringementAccording to the lawsuit, Micron turned to YMTC's patented technology to fend off competition from YMTC and to gain and protect market shar...
13 Nov, 2023, 08.36 AM IST
China's semiconductor state fund invests $2 billion in memory chip firmThe deal saw China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, also known as the "Big Fund", contribute to 33.15% of the total registered ...
31 Oct, 2023, 11.49 AM IST
China at major risk of losing global memory chip, AI race: reportThis could seriously hinder China's ability to develop large artificial intelligence (AI) models as South Korean companies like Samsung and...
09 Aug, 2023, 04.31 PM IST
Chip industry globalisation under threat, says chief of China's YMTCChen Nanxiang said in a speech at the opening ceremony of the Semicon China conference in Shanghai that this had given him doubts over whet...
29 Jun, 2023, 12.29 PM IST
‘De-Americanise’: How China is remaking its chip businessChina is not giving up on manufacturing high-end chips: Manufacturers are try to work with older imported parts which are not blocked by th...
12 May, 2023, 09.24 AM IST
US urges South Korea not to fill chip shortfalls in China if Micron bannedThe news comes ahead of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's visit to the U.S. on Monday for a summit with President Joe Biden.
24 Apr, 2023, 07.54 AM IST
China invests $1.9 billion in top chipmaker YMTC: reportSemiconductor manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) is set to receive 12.9 billion yuan from the state-owned National Integrat...
02 Mar, 2023, 07.12 PM IST
US puts 3 dozen more Chinese companies on trade blacklistEarlier this week, China filed a lawsuit with the WTO against the United States over its export control measures for computer chips. The Ch...
16 Dec, 2022, 04.57 PM IST
China summons chip firms for emergency talks after US curbsThe Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has summoned executives from firms including Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. and superc...
22 Oct, 2022, 12.27 AM IST
China summons chip firms for emergency talks after US curbsThe Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has summoned executives from firms including Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. and superc...
20 Oct, 2022, 02.01 PM IST
Apple freezes plans to use China's YMTC chips: reportApple had originally planned to start using state-funded YMTC's NAND flash memory chips as early as this year, Nikkei said, citing people f...
17 Oct, 2022, 10.19 AM IST
Apple freezes plans to use China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Co chipsThe United States last week added China's top memory chipmaker YMTC and 30 other Chinese entities to a list of companies that U.S. official...
17 Oct, 2022, 09.50 AM IST
Chip industry braces for ‘heavy blow’ from China export curbsThe Biden White House outlined the export curbs Friday, part of a years-long campaign to hamper China’s ability to develop the most advance...
13 Oct, 2022, 10.28 AM IST
Republican lawmakers warn Apple, say don't buy memory chips from YMTC for iPhone. This is what happenedApple has been warned by Republican legislators that it will face a big congressional investigation if it purchases memory chips from Yangt...
09 Sep, 2022, 10.14 PM IST